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One Existence's avatar

I would like to know "the meaning" of "heroic cultures" as it seems to be necessary to take any meaning out of your comment....

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

The term "heroic societies" was first coined by Munro Chadwick about a century ago, which briefly fell into disfavor until archaeological discoveries began to support it. There is a short checklist of heroic notions in Part I of https://davidgraeber.org/papers/culture-as-creative-refusal/ along with a theory of how they have come to inform our politics, and, as I interpret it, caused the waste of tens or hundreds of billions of years of labor power on useless dramas and trifles.

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